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This is an effective graphic organizer that helps students identify the following organizational patterns found in informative text: topic, main idea, and details; sequence of events; chronological order; compare and contrast; and cause and effect. Understanding organizational patterns helps students identify text evidence in order to understand the main ideas. This is a very important skill associated with Close Reading in the ELA Common Core Frameworks.

This graphic organizer will help your students use the essential strategy of Close Reading from the ELA Common Core Frameworks to help them identify universal themes and story elements found in any genre of narrative text.

Need a graphic organizer that reviews many of the key skills found in informative (nonfiction) text?! This is the organizer for you. It reviews many essential skills in comprehending informative text independently including the following: identifying the author's purpose, identify and explaining the contributions of text features, summarizing, and identifying the topic, main idea, and details of a given section of text. These are all important skills to use in Close Reading.

This graphic organizer helps students to use Close Reading Strategies and Text Evidence to explain how the stage directions in a drama help to identify the character traits of the characters in the play. It is a great graphic organizer that helps students to see how literary elements work together.

This lesson planner will give you activties and a graphic organizer that you can use to introduce your students to the Common Core Practice of Close Reading. This lesson planner is extremely important in teaching this essential skill.

This graphic organizer will help students use the Close Reading strategy from the ELA Common Core Framework to identify the main ideas and text features found in any genre of informational text.

This graphic organizer will help students use Close Reading Strategies to identify how the various characters feel about each other using text evidence. Then, students must identify the mood of the story that this relationship creates.

This is a valuable graphic organizer that can help students practice the following skills: identifying and explaining the contributions of text features, identifying the topic, main idea, and details, summarizing, and identifying the author's purpose. It can be used with any genre of nonfiction (informative) text. These are all important skills found in the ELA Common Core Framework.

This graphic organizer uses Close Reading Strategies in order to have students identify specific character traits for a character using text evidence. Also, they must state how they found the character trait and answer an essay question.

This is a great resource in helping the students to identify the relevant details so that they can retell the story. It would be an excellent Common Core Tool to help the students identify the Key Ideas and Details.

This graphic organizer will help students use the Close Reading Strategies from the ELA Common Core Framework using any genre of informational and narrative text. It helps students to identify text evidence in order to understand universal themes and main ideas.

This lesson planner is for teachers of all content areas who want their students to understand and internalize the important reading strategies of summarizing and evaluating. This lesson plan includes activities and graphic organizers.

This lesson plan gives teachers of any content area ideas and charts that they can use to teach the Visualizing and Making Connections strategy. It is a great Close Reading lesson planner.